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Money Laundering

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Crime
US Charges 6 With Laundering Mexican Drug Cartel Cash Using Crypto and Casinos
The U.S. Department of Justice charged the six individuals with alleged involvement in laundering funds from Mexican drug cartels after an investigation spanning years.
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By Sebastian Sinclair
Oct 16, 2020 at 8:58 a.m. UTC
Oct 16, 2020
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Maksim Boiko was arrested in March.
Markets
Money laundering
Authorities Arrest 20 Suspected of Ties to Russian Rapper's Alleged Money Laundering Syndicate
Authorities accuse QQAAZZ of mounting a laundering-as-a-service operation for the criminal underworld.
Maksim Boiko was arrested in March.
By Danny Nelson
Oct 15, 2020 at 3:09 p.m. UTC
Oct 15, 2020
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Crime
New Zealand Man Charged With Money Laundering via Crypto and Luxury Cars
As well as making cryptocurrency transactions, the man is alleged to have bought luxury cars and property to launder funds.
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By Sebastian Sinclair
Oct 15, 2020 at 9:16 a.m. UTC
Oct 15, 2020
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Money laundering
The FinCEN Files Show Banks Don’t Actually Care About Stopping Money Laundering
The massive leak of suspicious activity reports shows how banks let the government know about likely money laundering, then go right on providing services.
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By Nathaniel Whittemore
Sep 21, 2020 at 7:00 p.m. UTC
Sep 21, 2020
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US Moves to Seize $400M From Convicted OneCoin Money Launderer
The U.S. Department of Justice wants an attorney to hand over the massive sum he helped launder for the OneCoin scheme.
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By Paddy Baker
Sep 2, 2020 at 10:12 a.m. UTC
Sep 2, 2020
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Markets
Money laundering
Binance Credited With Helping Take Down Ukraine Crypto Laundering Group
Binance began pouring more resources into its data analysis and laundering detection capabilities earlier this year.
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By Danny Nelson
Aug 18, 2020 at 3:21 p.m. UTC
Aug 18, 2020
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Money laundering
US Prosecutors Seize Bitcoin Allegedly Tied to Al Qaeda, ISIS, Hamas
The U.S. Department of Justice is trying to seize bitcoin from 155 addresses it alleges were used by Al Qaeda to fund terrorism.
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By Nikhilesh De
Aug 13, 2020 at 3:43 p.m. UTC
Aug 13, 2020
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Interactive Brokers to Pay $38M in Settlement Over AML Lapses
Publicly traded brokerage firm Interactive Brokers has agreed to pay multi-million dollar penalties to the SEC, Finra and CFTC for failure to flag suspicious transactions and...
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By Jaspreet Kalra
Aug 10, 2020 at 6:20 p.m. UTC
Aug 10, 2020
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HSI Los Angeles Special Agents and Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department Deputies execute search warrants at mutliple locations in Los Angeles and Orange Counties and sieze more than a dozen ATM Bit Coin machines.
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Money laundering
'Superman29' May Do Time: California Resident Pleads Guilty to Laundering Millions Using Illegal Bitcoin ATMs
Kais Mohammad, aka “Superman29,” has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges he ran an unlicensed Bbtcoin ATM network that laundered up to $25 million.
HSI Los Angeles Special Agents and Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department Deputies execute search warrants at mutliple locations in Los Angeles and Orange Counties and sieze more than a dozen ATM Bit Coin machines.
By Jaspreet Kalra
Jul 22, 2020 at 8:44 p.m. UTC
Jul 22, 2020
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Latvian Police Seize Crypto Worth $126K in Bust of Suspected Cybercrime Ring
The “large-scale" money laundering operation ran from 2015 through 2020, police officials allege.
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By Danny Nelson
Jul 22, 2020 at 7:36 a.m. UTC
Jul 22, 2020
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